(1) A reader queries: "I was driving by the Hard Rock at the Beverly Center this past weekend and noticed it’s been boarded up and painted over. What the eff happened??" Well life happened, Amanda. We reported back in January that the Hard Rock quietly closed. The BC management office said they still don't have a tenant, and then asked, "Are you interested in putting something in there?" [EaterWire]
(2) In similar WTF news, our brethren at Curbed passed along this query: "What happened with the schwab's restaurant at sunset+vine? It closed shortly after it opened... and i read somewhere that it was being remodeled to be more "diner-like" or something... but it's obviously never re-opened and still sits there with the paper on the windows. Any clues?" Rumor was that Sam Nazarian's SBE Entertainment scooped up the space in 2005, first to keep it as Schwab's, then to turn it into something else. We haven't heard much since, but we're still listening. [Curbed LA]
